Ebro Darden, Laura Stylez, and Peter Rosenberg have suggested that they still haven’t received their last payment from Hot 97 following the cancellation of Ebro in the Morning last year.
“They owe us money… they owe us a lot of money, and they don't want to pay us,” said Stylez. “And by the way, that's a union contract… let's be clear, we're dealing with our union, that's a union deal,” Ebro added. “So, Laura, I thought you were good?” asked Rosenberg, to which Stylez suggested she was still running into issues getting her final payment from the company.
“I thought me and Ebro, they're claiming for with-cause, and not you?” said Rosenberg, to which Stylez replied, “When our girl was trying to be like, ‘Okay, so what's up with Laura?’ Crickets, crickets, crickets.” Rosenberg suggested that “all” three of them are “getting done completely dirty” by the company, which suddenly canceled the show late last year.
Rosenberg took a moment to chime in on the matter, writing via X that “i wish i was the type of person who stunted but im not so keep thinking things are bad for me lol.”
At the time of the cancellation, Ebro theorized that he was let go from Hot 97 due to his political beliefs.
“You look around at all the major media outlets… they all gotta fold up because they're all trying to renew their deals and their licenses,” he said. “The guy that owns the shit owns one of the casino licenses,” Darden said. “He gotta raise half a billion dollars. They need my shit talking, anti-Netanyahu, anti-government, progressive shit out of the way, bro. They need me out of the way.”
Stylez later revealed that one of the reasons they recorded live episodes from home instead of the Hot 97 studios was because of the state of the studio. “We just didn’t want to go into a studio with roaches and homeless people sleeping in the hallways,” she wrote in a tweet responding to a user who claimed they were “mailing it in.”
